Stripping in temporal adverbial constructions

Tense in Adjuncts Part 2: Temporal Adverbial Clauses

1. RECAPITULATION Part I of this article treats tense in relative clauses (RCs) in English, Russian and Japanese. The temporal centre in RCs can always be Tproi, and sometimes it has to be Tproi. 1. In SOT languages such as English, the Tense in the RC is bound in RC\wollconfigurations, i.e., we find a Tproi bound by woll. The licensing of the morphological tense in the RC is non-local in these...

The Status Change of Japanese Temporal Adverbial Clauses in SLA

Information Packaging in Sinhala: a Preliminary Study of Adverbial Clauses in Focus Constructions

Each of these sentences can be compared with one or more of the others to demonstrate the presence of either the syntactic, semantic or pragmatic component. Sentences 1a and 1b both provide the same statement about the world and are thus semantically equivalent, but they differ in terms of their syntax (seen with the change in word order) and pragmatics (seen with the fronting, hence focus, of ...

Downward Unbounded Discontinuities in Korean: An IPSG Analysis of Concord Adverbial Constructions

Although there is a lot of literature dealing with the classification and distribution of Korean adverbials, there does not seem to be any satisfactory work. This is partly due to the properties of the adverbials themselves, whose classification and distribution vary depending not only on the lexical properties of each adverbial but also on its distributional environment. However, the distincti...

the verbal constructions in azari (harzani dialect)

most of the verbal constructions of harzani dialect have got inflectional affixes. the majority of the constructions are made up vy adding a specific verbal affix to the verbal stem (infinitive without infinitive marker). only a few number of them is formed by adding a verbal affix to the past participle of the verb. there are specific rules for the formation of different verbal types. there is...